As a whole, U.S. capital investment grew by $16 billion in 2015, according to multinational firm Ernst & Young. The Lone Star State recorded $48.3 billion in business financing, ranking first in the country, and the Gulf Coast states, which are traditional leaders in the energy industry, attracted the highest number of investors for the fifth year in a row. Forty percent of funds went to chemical manufacturing facilities, of which seventy percent of those were new, liquefied natural gas export compounds. Marcus Hiles is aware that his state also shined in the financial, technology, and professional service fields, with 38,400 mobile project jobs, the greatest number in the nation.